GIF editor

What it does

Changes an animated GIF without leaving the browser. You can keep only some of its frames, crop it, make it narrower, play it faster, slower or backwards, and make the file smaller by reducing its colours or dropping frames.

Every change is applied straight away. The result plays beside the original, with its size, so you can see what each setting costs and saves.

How to use it

1. Choose a GIF, drop it on the box, or paste one. The page opens with a sample so you can try the controls first.
2. Drag the two Frames handles to cut frames from the start and the end.
3. Drag the frame over the picture to crop.
4. Set the speed, the width and the number of colours. Leave the width blank to keep the size.
5. Press Download GIF when the result is what you want.

A GIF made with Video to GIF can be sent straight here with Send to GIF editor.

The GIF can be up to 50 MB. A very long or very large one may be more than the browser can hold in memory; if so, the page says how many frames and what size it tried, so you can make it smaller.

Questions

Is my GIF uploaded?

No. The GIF is read, changed and written again by your own browser, on your own device. Nothing is sent to a server.

How do I make a GIF smaller?

In order of how much each one saves: make it narrower, keep every 2nd frame, trim frames from the start or end, crop to the part that matters, and reduce the colours. The size beside the Download button updates after every change, so you can stop as soon as it is small enough.

What does keeping every 2nd frame do?

It drops every other frame and shows each one that is left for twice as long, so the GIF plays at the same speed and for the same length, a little less smoothly, in a smaller file. The size shown beside the Download button tells you how much smaller.

What does "Store only what changes between frames" do?

Where a part of the picture is the same as in the frame before, it is not stored again. The GIF looks identical and is usually much smaller, above all for screen recordings. Turn it off only if a program you need shows the GIF wrongly, which is rare.

Does reducing the colours change how it looks?

A GIF holds at most 256 colours. Going to 128 or 64 is hard to see in screen recordings and drawings; photographs and video start to show bands in smooth areas. How much it saves depends on the picture, so try it and watch the size.

Why did my GIF get bigger?

Speeding up, slowing down and reversing do not change the size much, but a GIF that another program had already squeezed hard can come out slightly larger when it is written again. Making it narrower or dropping frames will bring it back down.